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What Difference Does It Make that Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Care Why Terrorists Killed Americans in Libya?

Clinton’s show of indifference isn’t just a question of distracting attention or callousness, it is a clear symptom of exactly what is wrong with the Obama Administration’s handling of this and other issues… Continue reading

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Noxious Nominations: The Four Horsemen of the American Foreign Policy Apocalypse

I did a lot of soul-searching before writing my latest article, yet within hours after its publication I concluded that I hadn’t been too pessimistic… Continue reading

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Why Should Obama Help Bring America’s Second-Worst Enemies to Power?

Here’s still another of a series of self-serving leaks from the Obama Administration. In this case, it reveals something very important about policy… Continue reading

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Iran displays captured US drone

Iran displayed the top-secret US stealth drone RQ-170 Sentinel captured on Sunday… Continue reading

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U.S. Political Engineering in the Middle East: Its Already Created Disaster Once Before

Few realize how U.S. policy at the start of the radical Islamist era in Middle East history parallels that… Continue reading

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Justice for Jonathan Pollard

Next month, convicted Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will begin his 27th year in prison, and the Obama administration is displaying… Continue reading

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Europe’s Underestimated Islamists

In early 1959, a small West German intelligence operation stumbled over a sensational find: U.S. collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

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FM Hina Rabbani Khar Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Our nation is united in its determination to eliminate the spectre of terrorism from our soil, from our region and the world… Continue reading

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The U.S. Government’s Failed History of Muslim Outreach

When President Obama hosted his annual iftar dinner in August to commemorate Ramadan… Continue reading

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Pro-Al Qaeda brigades control Qaddafi Tripoli strongholds

Members of the Al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group are in control of the former strongholds of Muammar Qaddafi captured by Libyan rebels… Continue reading

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A Tainted Alliance: The Rise and Fall of American Influence in Iran

The memory of centuries of foreign manipulation and interference is a constant factor in the foreign and domestic policy of modern Iran… Continue reading

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The Obama Administration’s “Mission Accomplished” Fallacy in the War on Terrorism

Leon Panetta, leaving the CIA directorship post to become secretary of defense, and General David Petraeus, leaving the job of commander… Continue reading

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Resistance in the Middle East: Double Agent

The Arab Spring has cast new light on resistance in the Middle East. A rare 2007 encounter with the leader of… Continue reading

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The Roots of U.S. Policy Insanity in the Middle East and the Cure

Why is U.S. and European policy toward the Middle East so off-base, and why do policymakers believe the strange things they think and… Continue reading

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U.S. Pushes Pakistani Intelligence to the Wall

The Obama administration is presenting the successful Osama bin Laden hit as an epic American solo operation, unparalleled in… Continue reading

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Obama Confirms: Osama bin Laden Killed in Firefight with U.S. Forces

U.S. President Barack Obama has confirmed in a speech to the nation that Osama bin Laden, leader of the Islamic Al-Qaeda terror group, is dead… Continue reading

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Obama Foreign Policy Is Ignorant and Stupid Rather Than a Conspiracy

The most common question — or remark — that I get from readers is to say that I’m wrong to talk about how Western policymakers… Continue reading

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Westophobia: Why Do “They” Hate America? Just Listen

Why do people in certain parts of the world hate America? Some think it’s because of U.S. support of Israel or other policies… Continue reading

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U.S. Head of Intelligence James Clapper Should Be Fired

If the Obama Administration would listen more to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates it might salvage its foreign policy… Continue reading

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Why U.S. Policy is so Bad: An Analysis of the Current Policymaking Process

The problem is that the people most qualified to be heard and who have the better understanding of the situation are being ignored… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Egypt’s Choice Not Just Between Authoritarian or Islamist Extremist Regime

We do not accept the proposition that Egypt’s only choices are a slow-to-reform authoritarian regime or an Islamist extremist one… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Muslim Brotherhood’s Rise Signals the Need for Greater Democracy and Transparency in Egypt

The Egyptians have a long history of threatening us with the MB bogeyman. Your counterparts may try to suggest that the President’s insistence on greater democracy in Egypt… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Turkey Used as Base to Transport Terrorism Suspects

Turkey allowed the US to use its airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey as part of the “extraordinary rendition” programme to take suspected terrorists to Guantánamo Bay… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: US-Turkey Relations Improve

The tone of the relationship has been improving since PM Erdogan’s visit to Washington last June, but Iraq continues to dominate our agenda… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Pakistan Committed to Defending Conviction of Omar Saeed Sheikh for Daniel Pearl Murder

A new investigation into the death of the American journalist Daniel Pearl says that the British jihadist jailed for his murder is likely to be released because Pakistani officials used tainted… Continue reading